a bioart performance
an experience of communication

Plants Embassy is at home in Boyarskye palaty for pleasing encounters with people and for establishing new lines of communication. A human being experiences issues in arranging with his/her neighbour about amicable mutual interaction; a human being is afraid of everything that is new, incomprehensible, unknown. The performance Flora Sapiens is a possibility of recognition, contact, change. Pondering over the importance of trees-mosses-flowers for a human being, and how difficult it is for them to live with us in a busy megapolis, within streams of cars, in a sack of paving asphalt. There is a pause for thought about a new distribution of roles/new responsibilities.

A theatrical research, which excludes actors-performers, becomes a tool for discovering a nonexisting "protocol" of communication, where anthropical and non-anthropical could speak in the character of equitable dialoguers.

So to get a personal experience of communicating with plants, the audience would be offerred an audio-visual trip among installations in microgroups.

Premiered in May 2022.

Director, sound producer ANDREY SMIRNOV
Scene-designer ELIZAVETA DZUTSEVA
Horticulturist, horticulture expert and producer DARYA ARTEMOVA
Media artist EUGENY AFONIN
Composer DMITRY PAVLYUKOV
Lighting designer ILYA SHABUROV
Ideas KIRILL PLESHKEVICH
Expert supporting NADEZHDA FLESS, VARVARA KAZANTZEVA, MILANA UMOROVA, SERGEY EFIMOV
Technical assistance ALEXANDR EVSEVYEV, VYACHESLAV KAKATSANOV, ILYA SHABUROV, GARIK SAVENKOV, IVAN SHADRIN
Producer OLGA KORSHAKOVA
Project manager ALEXEY GLUSHKOV


The performance is materialized with the assistance of President's Fund of Cultural Initiatives

Involving Theatre Union and Boyarskye palaty of RFTU

Strategic partner of the project: DENIS FROLOV and BOTANIKA MARKET Ltd

Collaborating support:
CEAMMC - Moscow Conservatory Centre for Electroacoustic Music
BLAGOSFERA - Center of Charity and Social Activity Development in Moscow
GERANIVKAZANI – Phyto lighting, Phyto lamps

Strategic partner of Liquid Theatre:
Center for Creative Industries FABRIKA